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"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Enid Mundy, Airforce, 1941- 1946.

Private Edwin Bavister joined the 25th Battalion of the Australian Infantry on 28 December 1915 and was killed in action in France on 18 July 1918. His memorial is at the war cemetery in Villers-Bretonneux, France. He was a grocer at Dinmore and 25 years old when he died.

3RAR’s Regimental Sergeant Major, Vince Murdoch, tends a wounded and blindfolded North Vietnamese soldier at Balmoral.

The No. 18 Squadron disbandment parade

Private later Lance Corporal Frank Albert BROWN 43rd Bn AIF

The pilot of a Handley-Page Halifax of No. 35 Squadron in his position prior to take-off at Linton-On-Ouse, Yorkshire. Date between circa 1940 and circa 1942

A GROUP OF SISTERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE, 106 CASUALTY CLEARING STATION. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE:- SISTER G. PARKINSON (1); SISTER G. THOMAS (2); SISTER D.A. NEWTON (3); SISTER E.M. FINLAYSON (4); SISTER E.M. SAUNDERS (5).

Malaya. 1941. Group portrait of three nursing sisters of 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station (2/4 CCS), 8th Australian Division. Left to right: Sister D. S. Gardam, who survived the sinking of the Vyner Brooke, was taken prisoner by the Japanese and died later in captivity in April 1945, Sister E. M. Hannah, also a survivor from the Vyner Brooke and the only surviving nurse of the 2/4 CCS, and, Matron I. Drummond, who, after surviving the sinking of the Vyner Brooke was among those massacred by the Japanese on the foreshore of Banka Island, Sumatra on 1942-02-16.

10185 Jack 'Lucky' Reed

5337 Frederick George Hansson. In this picture he is wearing Corporal's stripes which may date from his Militia service in the 84th Infantry enlistment into the AIF in Jan 1916

Risor, Aust-Agder, Norway

Two Recce Spitfires of No 682 Photo Reconnaissance Squadron RAF at San Severo Airfield, Foggia Airfield Complex, Southern Italy, September 1944 in their PRU Blue finish. The aircraft "F" is a PR. XIX with a Griffon engine. E is a Merlin engined aircraft. The recon cameras are housed in the circular aperture in front of the roundel on the fuselage.

Thomas Baker's Pilots Course. Baker is circled (right) and a colleague Packer is circled left.

Australians prepare for an attack near Bullecourt, France, May 1917. [AWM E00454]

Standing: Capt P Samson, Lieut Richard Harry Sampson, Q R Serg't Harry Percy Sampson. Sitting: RSM Harry Wills Sampson, Capt. Richard Sampson, RQM Serg't Frederick Sampson.

'White Coolies' originally published in 1954, re-released and the basis for the movie "Paradise Road"

London Cemetery and Extension at Longueval, from the entrance Portico.

William Frayne's medal set: L-R 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Enlisting in the RAAF in June 1942, Flt Sgt Allan BOCK trained as a Navigator under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) in Canada and England, and was posted to 625 Squadron RAF operating Lancaster bombers. On the night of 12/13 August 1944, Flt Sgt BOCK's Lancaster, serial number ME733, radio call sign CF-Z, was shot down and crashed at Hollenstein, Germany after an operational sortie over Brunswick. He was killed alongside six other crew members, aged 22.

Spr John Frederick BOARDMAN 6393

Markham Valley, New Guinea. 1943-09-05. Screened by dense smoke, paratroopers of 503 US Paratroop Infantry Regiment and Gunners of 2/4th Australian Field Regiment with their 25 pounders land unopposed at Nadzab, during the advance of 7th Australian Division on Lae.

657 St Elmo Rupert CORBETT - Prior to departure HMAT Hororata

A Centurion tank in position behind a protective bund at FSB Balmoral

Mount Gambier's iconic Blue Lake, the caldera of an extinct volcano, filled by the plentiful aquifers in the Mount's substates.

Philip Bonhotte's distinctive medal set. L-R Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal. Accumulated in just two years active service and just 24 years old at the time of his death on 24/5 April 1918

A colourised version of AC0066, a photograph taken in the same sequence as AC0068, although the aircraft appear in different orde . It shows two key colour schemes applied to RAAF Hudsons immediately prior to and during the early stages of WW2. A16-3 is painted matt black underneath, the others a sky blue. A16-47 is painted foliage green on the upper surfaces, the other two have a disruptive pattern with dark earth applied. A16-38 farthest from the camera, later served with No. 32 Squadron and was heavily damaged in March 1942 by enemy action in New Guinea. After repair it was issued to 1 OTU but was lost in an accident due to structural failure.

Ronald (Ron) Henry Parsloe 24 Squadron Gunner/Navigator

Australian Army Nursing Sisters Ellen Keats and Elizabeth Pyman. Ellen Keats was evacuated from Singapore on the ill-fated SS VYner Brooke and was murdered by her Japanese captros at Banka Island. Sister Pyman was more fortunate being evacuated on another ship and returning safely to Australia

Informal portrait of the crew of a Lancaster bomber of 467 Squadron RAAF prior to a night mission. Identified, left to right: 1352851 Sergeant (Sgt) Eric Reginald Hill, RAF, mid upper gunner of Weald, Essex; 423311 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Gilbert Firth Pate, RAAF, rear gunner of Belmore, NSW; 1350279 Sgt Kenneth Harold Tabor, RAF, flight engineer; 425413 Flt Sgt Alistair Dale Johnston, RAAF, wireless operator, of Melbourne, Vic; 400495 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Donald Philip Smeed Smith, DFC, RAAF, pilot of Melbourne, Vic; 412686 Warrant Officer Royston William Purcell, RAAF, navigator of Werris Creek NSW; 658844 Flt Sgt Jeremiah Parker, RAF, bomb aimer of England. The aircraft pictured is most likely the Lancaster Mark III bomber LM475 (PO-B). This was the usual aircraft flown by the crew listed above which crashed whilst on a mission over Lille, France, on 10 May 1944, of which only the pilot, Sqn Ldr Smith survived. Two weeks prior to this mission, bomber pilots were authorised to wear seat-type parachutes instead of the standard backpack that was stored in the plane and only hooked in case of need. This most likely saved Sqn Ldr Smith's life; on landing by parachute he made his way cross-country through France and Switzerland, and back to England several months later.

Another map minus unit dispositions but more clearly displaying key locations within the defensive perimeter

That picture is HMAS <i>Sydney (III)</i> in the Tsushima Straits the morning after evasive/survival action trying to minimise the effects of the infamous Typhoon Ruth. The storm killed 500 ashore in Japan and registered the limit of 120 knots on <i>Sydney's</i> anemometer before it broke. We regularly shipped green water over the flight deck and lost five aircraft overnight damaged beyond economical repair, including one overboard. Also, one forklift and the captain's jollyboat broke adrift and went for a swim, never to be seen again. But our faithful doggie, the Netherlands' <i>Von Galen</i>, fared much worse. Glimpsed astern every now and then through blinding rain at night, <i>Sydney</i> told her that she need not keep station. By flickering Aldis retrieved from a wrecked motorboat she reported four major fires, boiler and engine rooms flooded, only one boiler working, total electrical failure, no radar, no radio, no gyro compass, useless (spinning) magnetic compass, manual steering and all boats and rafts either stove in or swept away. It was suffixed with a plaintive, <i>"May we stay with you?"</i>

179 Sgt (later Lieutenant) William John Shaughnessy RH#14

Edward Hewlett's Certificate of Discharge - reverse

Corporal Phil Davey, VC, MM. He won the 10th Battalion's third Victoria Cross at Merris, northern France, on 28th June 1918. He destroyed a machine gun that that moments before inflicted casualties on other 10th Battalion colleagues in a neighbouring platoon, including Platoon Commander Lieutenant Jack McInerney.

ONE OF THE GUNS OF THE 2/2ND FIELD REGIMENT FIRING AT A JAPANESE POSITION IN THE AREA IN WHICH LIEUTENANT A. CHOWNE, MM, GAINED HIS VC.

S/N 1 Lt Edward Addy pth Australian Infantry Battalion is remembered on the Catfield War Memorial, the village of his birth.

The Boer War Memorial in Pietersburg

Commemorative Medallion which together with a Commemorative Scroll, were presented to the families of the Fallen

Robert Thomas BAMBLETT's headstone in the AIF Cemetery West Terrace Adelaide

Frank Hurley Machine-gunners of the 3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment at Khurbet-Ibn-Harith, Palestine, on 31 December 1917 print from Paget plate P03631.087

Frank Mouritz 2018

3697 PTE Patrick Weir 3rd Pioneer Battalion

Flight Sergeant APPLEDORE F.H. Nowra Cemetery